Indo-US Earth-Tracking Satellite Set To Launch Wednesday

An Indo-US earth-tracking satellite, NISAR, is set to launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on India's southeastern coast Wednesday. A collaboration between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation, the first-of-its-kind satellite will lift off aboard an ISRO Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle on a mission to scan nearly all the Earth's land and ice surfaces twice every 12 days. The

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